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Meanings of petrifaction in английском
A process by which organic material is converted into stone by impregnation with silica.
Usage of petrifaction in английском
1
This petrifaction of egoism would from amazedly to austerely refuse the petition.
2
There is no shadow of doubt that this is a genuine petrifaction.
3
There is petrifaction of the understanding; and also of the sense of shame.
4
But this main fact makes intelligible all the phenomena of petrifaction and retrogression.
5
Perhaps the process might be more aptly called one of petrifaction.
6
A momentary petrifaction, and terror had lent wings to her feet.
7
Of the older writers Hellwigius, Horstius, and Schurig speak of petrifaction of the arm.
8
With the petrifaction of its soil, it had withered away.
9
On the way back to Moscow he relapsed again into a state of petrifaction.
10
I chose to kill the petrifaction mania with a delicate, a very delicate satire.
11
A petrifaction was a kind of a hard-wood chemical git-up.
12
Something like a petrifaction of her wildest face was shown.
13
As for Rollin, he became, and remained for some time, a petrifaction of amazement.
14
They accentuated the lifelessness, the petrifaction, the intense and sinister quiet of the prostrate city.
15
Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the State from social petrifaction and stagnation.
16
One of the young ladies guessed it to be the petrifaction of an antediluvian mussel.
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Petrifaction through the time
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